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Mennonite Collegiate Institute"A Place to Explore, Discover and Achieve Excellence"Address:Box 250, Gretna, MB, ROG 0V0Telephone: (204) 327-5891; Fax: (204) 327-5872WWW:N/AE-mail:mciblues@mb.sympatico.caType of School: Coeducational general academic and university preparatoryReligious Affiliation: MennoniteGrades: 9-12 plus AP 1Boarding Grades: 9-12 plus APApplication Deadline: Open, but April 15 for following September recommendedScholarship deadline: August 1LocationMennonite Collegiate Institute is set on eight acres of land in the northwest corner of Gretna,Manitoba. That town is a small, rural community (population 538), situated less than a mile (1km) from the North Dakota border, and in Manitoba, about 6 miles (10 kms) from Altonaand about 70 miles (112 kms) south of Winnipeg (population 618,477). For the School, Gretna'ssize and location away from larger urban centres, has allowed it to develop its uniqueprogramme. Students travel by bus on field trips and to inter-school events.HistoryMennonite Collegiate Institute has been in continuous existence in Gretna since 1891. Originallythat town was chosen not only because it was one of the major points of entry and dispersal forsupplies throughout the south-central area of Manitoba, but also because it was on the immediateside of the so-called Mennonite West Reserve and could therefore serve the Mennonitecommunity's educational needs.The Institute was the first post-elementary Mennonite school in Western Canada. Asoriginally established, its primary purpose was to give the high school prerequisites for teachertraining to prospective teachers in the public (elementary) schools of the Mennonite community.This remained its main purpose until the 1950s when the smaller rural Mennonite schools beganto be phased out and when high school graduation ceased to be the minimum requirement forteacher training in Manitoba.Today, its aim is to give students a thorough grounding in the academics required for highschool graduation, but to do so within the framework of a Christian perspective in preparation fortraining and Christian service in a variety of professions and walks of life.MCI is sponsored by 22 Mennonite congregations and the Institute is accredited by the1 See Appendix V.1